Hi, On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 15:01, Ash wrote: > Next, I tried to clear the journal parameter in hope > of being able to run fsck after that is done. > But "tune2fs -O ^ has_journal" tells me > "The needs_recovery flag is set. Please run e2fsck > before clearing the has_journal flag." >From "man tune2fs": -f Force the tune2fs operation to complete even in the face of errors. This option is useful when removing the has_journal filesystem feature from a filesystem which has an external jour- nal (or is corrupted such that it appears to have an external journal), but that external journal is not available. Does this help you to get further? Cheers, Stephen _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users